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Questions tagged [wifi-hotspot]

Tag for Wi-Fi access point related questions.

Wi-Fi hotspot is a part of infrastructure providing network access to its clients using the RF (Radio Frequency) interface.

Related tags

  • Wireless Local Area Network.
  • Many general Wi-Fi links are listed at the tag info wiki page.

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Encrypting a Wifi Hotspot

I was able to set up a wifi hotspot using the following: nmcli dev wifi hotspot ifname wlp8s0 ssid adam password "password" But how do I encrypt the password and select the cipher that is used? Looking at the…
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Wifi HotSpot that launches website after connection

My goal is to make UI for some device, through website. Device has wifi hotspot running, user can connect to it. Then I want to do "something" that I saw in few airports but have no idea how to do it. When I use free wifi in the airport, sometimes…
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Linux clients are not being timed-out by captive portal

A captive portal at my local coffee shop let's all clients (both in the sense of IT and of buyer) running Linux to use the Wifi as long as they wish. Windows clients are treated differently, and after 45' they are kicked out of the network. What…
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Problems with USB to WiFi adapter TP-LINK TL-WN722N v2 and Hotspot creation

I use Linux Mint 20.1 and am trying to properly install USB WiFi device TP-LINK TL-WN722N v2 I first installed driver R8188eu following instructions from https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu Also this driver was recommended on following…
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How to get internet going in my current circumstances? ( using a USB cable, another linux laptop and a cellphone with cellular data )

Here's what I want to do : Get my Wifi USB dongle to work on my Desktop PC on which I installed Linux. The Wifi USB dongle has drivers for "Linux 2 and 3"... Either way, it doesn't work right now. Here's a list of what I have at disposal that could…
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Changing SSID often and force close-by computers to forget the prevous one

I have a Pi Zero W, and want to use it to broadcast the status of a door (open / closed) to people (working on laptops) near-by. I got it working by setting up an access point (with hostapd) that contains the relevant information in the SSID but the…
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